[Mono-winforms-list] Re: win32 api dlls

[Yrjana Rankka]

Agreed. A build script could use wget or similar util to get the dated
target snapshot from Wine.

Then apply the patches, make shared objects and place them in a distrib
directory in the build.

Another script to install these in place and we're go.

Yrjänä

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 22:01, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > I think this made diffs with all files, which are absent in directory with
> > my modified wine,
> > but present in native wine
> > 
> > Actually my new wine is much less and is cut down for required directories
> > only.
> > so  for instance -  I have 7 dlls, but native wine - much more - 83 !.
> > Mono does not need them (at least for now)
> 
> Am glad that you got diff working, those are good news.
> 
> Now, to be able to move forward, the best way to approach this is to a
> list of your changes, so we can maintain these changes until all of them
> have been integrated into Wine proper.
> 
> To achieve this, it is important that Mono users be able to:
> 
> 	* Download a pristine and official Wine release.
> 
> 	* Apply the Mono patch.
> 
> 	* Build and install (possibly to a different prefix, if needed)
> 
> To reach that goal, we should not trim down Wine and distribute a
> trimmed down wine, because that would force upon us the maintenance of
> it, which we are not ready to do.
> 
> Could you hence recreate the missing files from the original
> distribution, or apply your changes to a pristine Wine, so we can get a
> usable patch?
> 
> Miguel
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